Grassland cover and composition respond to climate and have undoubtedly changed during the Holocene, but quantitative reconstructions from fossil pollen have been vague about spatial scale and taxon-specific cover. Here, ...

Nitrogen (N) availability, defined here as the supply of N to terrestrial plants and soil microorganisms relative to their N demands, limits the productivity of many temperate zone forests and in part determines ecosystem ...

Nighttime rainfall has long been thought of as an important component to the central Great Plains hydroclimate during the wettest three-month period known as the “late spring - early summer precipitation maximum” from ...

The fifty-four Colorado Fourteeners— mountains more than 14,000 feet in elevation—were early symbols of westward expansion, mineral wealth, and wondrous scenery, and they are increasingly popular as environmental icons in ...

Sacred mountains are integral to the Navajo worldview, yet their land
use is often incongruous with their spiritual significance. Nearly all of
the land of the six massifs that are deeply symbolic within Navajo origin
stories ...

The objective of this study was to conduct cultural energy analyses on feedlot cattle production in Turkey. The comprehensive climate index (CCI) model was used to predict DMI, ADG, and feed efficiency of feedlot cattle ...

As of the year 2000, the Cultural Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers had 465 members and ranked fourth overall in total membership within the association. Furthermore, cultural geographers ...

Over the past few decades, the homeland concept has received an ever-increasing amount of attention by cultural geographers. While the debate surrounding the necessity and applicability of the concept continues, it is more ...

The objective of this study was to determine climatologically suitable places to raise feedlot cattle in the Midwest. Hourly average temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed values for 22 locations (Des Moines, Mason ...

Many of the processes of social and economic change in rural areas of America in the last century have had significant negative environmental impacts (Woods, 2005). The conversion of native grasslands and woodlands to ...

Energy conservation has emerged as one of the biggest challenges of the world in the XXI century, and not different from many countries, the US has created plans and policies to stimulate renewable energy alternative. Among ...

Devastating monsoon season floods in the central Nepal Himalaya have been difficult to predict with any precision, reliability, or accuracy. Deforestation is often blamed as the principal cause of flooding. This paper uses ...

Tornadoes are deadly storms that can cause a great deal of destruction in the communities they strike. Although warning systems have been improved upon in recent years, tornadoes still pose a serious threat to property, ...

The purpose of this article is to examine
the portrayal of American Indians at the interpretive
sites along the Lewis and Clark
National Historic Trail (NHT) in the Great
Plains to see to what extent multicultural
awareness ...